I officially applied for a Masters program at Wright State University yesterday.  Turned in the application, the essay, paid the fee.  Once my three letters of recommendation arrive and the transcript from my B.A. the committee will go over my package and accept or reject my application to start this fall.

Man I just love being judged by people who don't know me.

Heh.

The thought of being back in college both turns my stomach and excites me.  I'm much more conservative than I was for my B.A.  That usually doesn't play well on college campuses. 

It's a Masters of Public Administration.  Honestly I'd eventually like to work in international administration.  I know that sounds like a paper pushing, busy type work job.  What I want specifically is to work in administrating the engineering of natural resources.  For instance, inter country pipe lines (be it for water, oil, whatever).  All the details of a project like that, have to be worked out in the administration once funding is allocated, earned, given, whatever.

The thought of bringing professionals from various fields together to make a real difference in people's lives gets me really excited about the degree.

Of course I am putting the cart before the horse.  Never a good idea.

First, I must be accepted into the program.

Second, I must FINISH it...

College with kids.  New territory for me.  So who knows.

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Speaking of kids.  Nah, I won't go there today.  They're good though.

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Hubby goes in Monday for rotator cuff surgery.  The doc ordered an MRI if his shoulder and it showed four good size holes in the cartilage?  Dr said they don't usually see tares in a rotator cuff on an MRI, but I guess his are pretty bad so they showed up.  He also has several bone spurs which keep him from lifting his arm higher than mid chest.  Kinda hard to do push ups with all that going on.

So Monday he goes under the knife.  He'll be fine.  Though I am probably tempting fate to actually put that in words.

They told him 2-4 weeks in a sling like cast.  That seems a long time to me.  He doesn't have the patience for that type thing.  Two hours after his vasectomy we were outside digging drainage ditches.  And the next day, and several days after that.

I tease him that he can work after surgery like He-man, but let him get a little cold and he wants to lay on the couch and be babied. hahahahaha

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I finished reading "Blood Noir" by Laurell Hamilton last night, the latest in the Anita Blake Vampire Huntress/Necromancer series.  I thought it basically sucked.  Jean-Claude wasn't in it, Richard only made a minor appearance, and the plot wasn't really advanced.  It seems like her publishers wanted a book, so she wrote this interim one.  Like the whole thing coulda been reduced to five chapters and put in a real book.

Glad I didn't pay for it.  Thank you library!

I just discovered a new author.  Her name is Jessica Andersen.  The first book of a paranormal series is out called "Night Keepers."  It's very involved.  Classic good and evil, but her twist is ancient Mayan gods and culture.  A warrior priest line, until now thought killed off, is brought back together to fight the big bad.  Of course all their history and knowledge was lost so they are re-discovering their gifts and talents.

The first book is about the King, Strike, and how he starts bringing these paranormal warriors back to their place in the New Mexico desert to prepare for the end of the world which happens in 4 years.

Andersen is going to write about each warrior's journey, to life, to love, to all the things that make for good story telling.

It's written smart and savvy, not the mewling mush that so many paranormal novels shovel these days.  I am looking forward to the next book titled, "The Dawn Keepers."

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I hope the rest of summer is relaxing and uneventful.

I'm not holding my breath.

Until then, I will enjoy the lull.